I'm just letting people know they're probably not going to be fairly considered if they take the time to fill out the Ridiculously long form.

Yeah, that's wrong. You're the only person misleading anybody. I genuinely don't care about what subreddits people moderate - sure, mod experience can be a plus, it's not as significant to me as you think. In fact, I would probably prefer to find mods that moderate very few subreddits, if any.

As for your "You and the same people mod a ton of cumulative subscribers together." comment. When I made this subreddit, I brought on moderators from my other subreddits that I trust. Apart from those 3 mods, one is an admin who is just a fan of the subreddit, and the rest are users who I had zero moderating history with that were brought on from within this community using this exact system. In fact, 3/5 of those moderators had never even moderated a subreddit before.

So, again, pack up your tin-foil and pitchforks and find another mod to pester. Feel free to do some research next time.

Won't be an issue. Account age isn't a deciding factor, but it's something we like to look at. I mainly included that question so that we can see it within the results page, which just saves us from having to manually check everyone's profiles.

We don't want either. Like I say on the application, we don't actively try and remove more posts than we approve, nor do we do the opposite. Though if we were to pay attention to the numbers I would guess we approve far more posts than we remove...though users shouldn't take that into consideration for this application.

And no worries, I'm happy to try and explain it as best I can. If you have any other questions feel free to let me know.

These varying perspectives are the reason we're using this form. I'll quickly try to explain what I mean...

Say we have 3 mods. Mod 1 might remove post A, but leave posts B and C alone. Mod 2 removes post B, but leaves posts A and C alone. Then Mod 3 removes post C, but leaves posts A and B alone. With 3 different perspectives, all 3 posts end up getting removed. If all 3 mods shared the same perspective of Mod 1, then only 1 post would be removed.

This isn't a perfect example since when a post gets removed, the other mods won't even see it, but hopefully you get the general idea. If we have mods with varying opinions as to what kinds of posts should be removed, then we might end up with far more post removals than if we tried to find mods that share similar perspectives.

It's a bit more complicated than how I described it, and obviously it's not perfect, but it's a huge improvement over the traditional method of finding mods - which is simply asking the users a few questions about the subreddit and their reddit experience, then having to sift through each users post history and make your judgement based on what you find. It's a pretty terrible system.

Well, the survey won't be the only part of the decision, but it will be the main part. I also plan to look at the results in several different ways, not just crunching the numbers and just looking at the final score for each person. There are a lot of different things we're going to do with the results to try and find the right people.

We tried to keep it as fair as possible. I simply gathered up the top 70ish posts that were on the front page at the time, and listed the 4 most common removal reasons under each of them. It's almost exactly like what moderating is like. Not entirely sure what you mean by taking differing perspectives into account. This application is intended to find users with similar perspectives to us, with the hopes that having all moderators on the same page might minimize the amount of removals.